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Sweet icons!

Also, is that Brickton speedpaint available as a wallpaper? It’s really cool! :D

Good stuff, especially liked the speed painting video. As for the icons, it is difficult to tell, considering we do know everything Bricktrons can do. The weapons/tools one are perhaps to assign certain tasks, sword for melee combat, bow for ranged combat, hammer for demolition, axe for cutting wood, pickaxe to dig?

Other than that, the ones showing bricks are for…placing stuff? That doesn’t sound right unless you guys got rid of the phantom blocks. Maybe one of them has something to do with stockpiles?

The ones with numbers give a clue about terrain elevation? And the ones with five dots/diamonds are to move Bricktrons while keeping their formation? I suspect the flags and colored ones are for waypoints and groups?

No idea about the others. They’re nice icons though, but we “outsiders” do not know all the talents our little yellow friends have…

Ah, you guys like Firefly. That makes you even cooler in my book.

Now get back to work on this gorram game!

Very exciting! I Second the motion for a downloadable wall paper from the speed paint; it looks really nice :D

Everything looks sweet! I have to say, the flags are exciting me; do I see different colors of Bricktrons battling it out from adjacent islands? I also like your music posts. I’ll end with an idea I had: you hinted to the islands’ being able to float with magic, so possibly within each island could be a power core of sorts that, when discovered destroyed (mined), sends the entire land mass plummeting to the water below?

propperties of closed rooms ay, hmm this knowledge could make trap rooms, or if posible later on to fill a room up with something. example room full of water, could drop things into it, or even open the door of the room of water and have the water gush out pushing stuff

I am quite liking the hud art. It’s very nice and clean looking. Very easy to read, too–important as I’m imagine the game will get quite hectic at some points!

where you high during the making of the coursors?? since you dont even know what they mean? ;D

tho, only ones i dont really understand is the ones in the upper right corner.

OK I am going to try and guess all of them in order.

Mouse, Add or subtract unit selections, Single unit select, Add unit on click, Subtract unit on click, Go here, Defend here?

???, ???, ???, Attack Melee, Build, Chop down tree, Mine, Attack Ranged

Place double block, place stair block, Place archway block, place single block, Check point for red team/squad, etc.

Pick up block?, Team/squad indicator.

I have no idea what those three are on the second row.

OO! very sweet icons! Good job! I think, your game is wonderful.

I don’t think the cursors are very intuitive, but I don’t think it’s that necessary.

Here’s my guess any way;

http://i.imgur.com/1QAP1.png

[...] week, the Sauropod team’s development blog for Castle Story includes a look at some icons, mouse cursors and HUD designs.. they haven’t [...]

FIREFLY REFERENCE! I’m lovin’ it!

Wallpaper. YES!! the icons are cool too.

some are very obvious, others are impossible to guess, without knowing the game :)

i’d guess the flags are for different teams/groups you can assign to different tasks?

sword, hammer, axe, etc. are clear, the ones above (with the small clusters) no idea!

+6 and -4… uhm…temperature?! :D

anyway, loving the thought of playing the game soon.
keep it up ;)

Could you maybe provide the “How to draw a Bricktron” video without the music? Due to the embedded track the video is blocked in Germany thanks to GEMA…

Great music, thanks for that. Didnt know it until now.

The “Icones” (haha i know its spelt icons) look amazaing! Definetly good quality with a nice style. Keep up the good work guys, im looking forward to countless nights of castle story!

wow after Bonobo now Royksopp, definitely buying your game just because your great taste :)

Neverpants studios… That can’t be good…

Just shut up and take our money!

I like the Icons, but can’t view the video. (Germany)

So Cap’m I’m going to guess all the icons in order. And call them bricons instead of icons.
Standard Bricon, Something to do with selction. One Bricktron selected. Group of Bricktrons Selected. Add to group selected. Remove from group selected. Organization and Organization (don’t know the difference yet.)

Progress bars possibly for the first 3. Select knights. Select Builders. Select Woodcutters. Select Miners. Select Archers.

Make full block. Make Stairs. Make Arch. Make half-block. Select Group/Move Group

Delete full block. Make Group.

Keep it up and get this gorram game up and running before the reavers arrive and Wash gets speared by a ship.

Wow. I’ve been following this blog and I have converted half of my school to following this game ( i might be exaggerating with it being half). I love the concept and I wish you good fortune when making this game.

I really like the art style of the icons. But I’m a bit worried about them being hard to see on grass. Maybe you should change the main color to something other than green, or add an outline.

Awesome music!

hey guys. after listening to that music, i highly recommend born gold. i think you’d like it.
http://borngold.bandcamp.com/

Hey there. My name is Daniel and Ive been following this amazing project for some time now. Id like to give my opinions on the Icons.

Sword– Equip Bricktron with warrior supplies — ie. sword and armor

Hammer– I have two for this one. Either Its demolish or to Equip a Bricktron with building equipment (Probably second one)

WoodAxe– Equip Bricktron with wood cutting supplies so they can cut trees

PickAxe– Equip Bricktron with mining supplies to enable mining.

Bow– Equip Bricktron with Archer supplies

All Flags– Set groups for Bricktrons, so that you can quickly make a whole group be an archer, warrior, miner etc. And also to move them quickly together.

All blocks with down arrows– Decide what block to place, ie Half block, Whole block, Stairs.

Block with up arrow– Remove a block (Any type, universal)

The other icons without pictures that are all green are a bit confusing. I suspect they will just be for moving Bricktrons and also Things like placing Phantom Blocks etc etc.

What do you think?